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DEATH NOTICES Lllyan (Gottberg) Anderson, of Bend Mar. 19, 1925 - Feb. 19, 2015 Arrangements: Baird Funeral Home of Bend is honored to serve the family. 541-382-0903 www.bairdmortuaries.com Services: Private services will be held at a later date. Contributions may be made
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Workman,of Redmond Aug. 4, 1974 - Feb. 19, 2015 Arrangements: The Dallas Mortuary Tribute Center is caring for the family. 503-623-2325 Services: Graveside service will be held 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at the Mill Creek Cemetery in Prineville,
Stuart Ramson I The Associated Press file photo
Jazz musician Clark Terry, left, talks with Quincy Jones at a rehearsal of "Sonic Convergence" in New York. Terry, a legendary jazztrumpeter who mentored Miles Davis and Jones and played in the orchestras of both Count Basie and Duke Ellington and on "The Tonight Show," has died. He was 94.
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Louis and joined a big band led Clark Terry, one of the most by George Hudson. Oregon. "George put the full weight popular and influential jazz trumpeters of his generation of the band on me," he told the and an enthusiastic advocate jazz historian Stanley Dance in of jazz education, died Satur1961. "I played all the lead and 1934- 2015 day in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He all the trumpet solos, rehearsed was94. the band, suggested numbers, January 15 , 2 0 15, W enHis death was announced by routines and everything." dell passed away i n P a i shis wife, Gwen. The regimen paid off: When ley, Oregon. He was born Terry was acdaimed for the Hudsonband played atthe A pril 8, 1934, in Port A n his impeccable musicianship, Apollo Theater in Harlem, Terg eles, Washington to p a r ents, Willard an d P h oebe loved for his playful spirit and ry's work was heard by some ( Golding) A r q uette. H e respected for his adaptability. of the most important people was r a i sed b y e x t e n d ed Although his sound on both in jazz, and he soon had offamily in the Grass Valley, trumpet and the rounder-toned fers. He worked briefly with California area and graduflugelhorn (which he helped the bands of the saxophonist a ted f r o m h i gh sch o o l popularize as a jazz instru- Charlie Barnet and the blues there. He loved to hunt and shared many fond memo- ment) was highly personal and singerand saxophonistEddie
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Wendell lived i n P a i sley f or a b ou t t h r e e o r fo u r ears and was befriended y t h e l oc a l r es i d ents. W endell w o r k e d a s an auto mechanic at Robberson F or d i n Be n d an d Cliffs in M a d ras. He lived in both of these areas during his employment. A Celebration of Life will be held Fri. Feb. 27, at the Paisley Saloon.
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ence in New York's recording called. studios — accompanying singIt was the opportunity he ers, sitting in big-band trumpet had been waiting for. Working sections, providing music for with Basie, he would say many radio and television commer-
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a seniority thing. There were about 10 guys ahead of me." trician who helped establish nents of teaching jazz at the colIn late 1959 he joined a big the m o d er n a n t i -abortion lege level. band being formed by Quinmovement. Died Friday in His fellow musicians re- cy Jones, who not that many Cincinnati. spected him as an inventive years earlier, as a youngster, Bruce Sinofsky, 58: Os- improviser with a graceful and had taken a few trumpet lescar-nominated a nd Em- ebullient style, traces of which sons from him. The original my-winning d o c umentary can be heard in the playing of plan was for the band to appear filmmaker. Died Saturday in Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis in a stage musical called "Free Montclair, New Jersey, of com- and others. But many listeners and Easy," with music by Harplications from diabetes. knew him best for the vocal old Arlen. But the show folded — From wire reports numbers with which he pep- during a tryout in Paris, and peredhisperformances, a dis- Terryaccepted an offerto join tinclively joyous brand of scat NBC-TV's in-house corps of singing in which noises as well nluslclans.
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Clark Terry was born into a jazz education, appearing at poor St. Louis family Dec. 14, high school and college clinics, 1920. His mother, the former
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